Implementation, Iterative Improvement & Scaling Up

Using an evidence-based approach to design large-scale programs to improve infant and young child feeding. BACKGROUND: Global interest in scaling up nutrition outcomes has focused attention on the need for […]

Sustainability and scaling-up analysis of community-based management of acute malnutrition: lessons learned from Burkina Faso. BACKGROUND: Community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) is an effective strategy frequently implemented by nongovernmental organizations, […]

Strengthiening systems to support mothers in infant and young child feeding at scale. BACKGROUND: Systems strengthening is essential for implementation of large-scale nutrition interventions, including infant and young child feeding […]

‘Sometimes they fail to keep their faith in us’: community health worker perceptions of structural barriers to quality of care and community utilisation of services in Bangladesh Community health workers […]

Deworming the world. Worms or helminths have historically infected more than half the world’s population, but were largely neglected by medical science and public health interventions because they were considered […]

Overestimation of vitamin a supplementation coverage from district tally sheets demonstrates importance of population-based surveys for program improvement: lessons from Tanzania. BACKGROUND: Tanzania has conducted a national twice-yearly Vitamin A supplementation […]

Promoting safe infant feeding practices – the importance of structural, social and contextual factors in Southern Africa. There has been significant progress towards the goal of eliminating vertical transmission of […]

Fortifying baladi bread in Egypt: reaching more than 50 million people through the subsidy program. BACKGROUND: Micronutrient deficiencies, especially iron-deficiency anemia, are a public health problem in Egypt, where anemia […]

Insights from community case management data in six sub-Saharan African countries. There is strong research evidence that community case management (CCM) programs can significantly reduce mortality. There is less evidence, […]

Scaling up of breastfeeding promotion programs in low- and middle-income countries: the “breastfeeding gear” model. Breastfeeding (BF) promotion is one of the most cost-effective interventions to advance mother-child health. Evidence-based […]